NOEL HILLIS PHOTOGRAPHY
Geneticist Emmeline Hill grew up a horse girl. Her grandmother, Charmian Hill, was the first woman to ride against men in Ireland, earning her the title “galloping granny” in the family’s hometown in County Wexford. Charmian also bred horses, and owned the prizewinning Thoroughbred mare Dawn Run. Although granddaughter Hill was quite the rider herself, it was horse breeding that always captivated her. “Everyone knows that one horse can run faster than the other, and they ask, ‘Which one?’ I want to know, ‘Why?’”
METHODS: Because there was practically no such thing as equine genetics when she started grad school, Hill instead studied human population genetics at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). “I always thought that I could use the training that I had in human ...
